- Title
- Beginnings of Public Education in North Carolina, a Documentary History, 1790-1840 [v.2]
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- Date
- 1908
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- Creator
- ["Coon, Charles L. (Charles Lee), 1868-1927."]
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- Place
- ["North Carolina, United States"]
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- Series
- Publications of the North Carolina Historical Commission
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Beginnings of Public Education in North Carolina, a Documentary History, 1790-1840 [v.2]
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4. RALPH FREEMAN .4 1ST
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PREACH.
Petition that Ralph
Freeman he per-
mittofl to preach.
Freeman a
preacher
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years.
Certificate ol’ got* 1
character.
Fn voluble eommit
tee report.
State of -North Carolina, Montgomery County.
To the Honourable the General Assembly :
We the under signed your petitioner-? who mostly are
residents of the County aforesaid do Humbly
гергем
to
your Honourable body that by an act. passed at the last
session of your .Body, restraining free persons of colour
from preaching- the Gospel, you have deprived us your
Humble petitioners of a right which we have heretofore
doomed a Yerry important one as we live in a Yerrv
>paree. or thin populated pari of our County am) as Clerge-
men of our denomination are scarce, we pray your honour¬
able body to repeal the said act, or so much thereof as will
permit Ralph f reeman a freeman, of collor, to preach the
Gospel among- us still as lie has done heretofore for the
Last forty years or there about we a? in duty hound will
ever pray etc.
Octbr. 22nd, 1822.
We the under Signed, do hereby Certify That we have
been acquainted with Ralph Freeman for a Number of
years and his ministry and believe him an orderly person
and a Gospel preacher1.
I lev. George I.itti.e
Rev. Ezekiel Mortox
Rev. Thomas Philips.
The Committee on Propositions and Grievances to
whom was referred the petition of sundry citizens of the
County of Montgomery, praying that Ralph Freeman, a
free person of colour, may be allowed to preach, having
considered the same have directed me to
1 Ttiis memorial is signed by ninety-six other persons.
53Г.
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